Schaff v. Ellison

This is a suit for damages arising from the death of I. W. Ellison, instituted by his widow, Anna Bell Ellison, for herself individually, as administratrix, and as next friend of the minor children of the survivor and deceased, by name, I. W. Ellison, Jr., and Ray Ellison. It was alleged that the death of I. W. Ellison, Sr., was the result of the joint and several negligence of C. E. Sehaff, receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas and the Sumner-Sollitt Company, a private cpr-poration, and arose directly from the shunting of loaded cars onto a track or spur on which…